Changes include faster vehicles, more checkpoints, tutorials, hint screens and tweaked missions, challenges, visual effects, visual enhancements and difficulty. It was originally launched as the initial version for the 3DS platform earlier that year. It is a re-mastered version with the ability to switch to the original version of the game in the options. In November 2014 Retro City Rampage: DX was launched, a new version for all previous platforms and introducing new platforms. Health is replenished by collecting hearts or buying food at vending machines. Vehicles can be repainted at spray garages, but cops can also be shaken off by collecting cop cloaking devices that make them lose the trail. There are five special, permanent power-ups such as "Speed 'Kills' Shoes" for faster speed that are discovered or bought throughout the game. The main character can buy various customizations, play arcade games or gamble at the casino. Committing too many crimes raises a threat meter causing the police force to arrive in increasingly larger numbers. Other options include the ability to jump, and pick up and throw objects, including pedestrians. The gun targeting has a lock system where it is possible to strafe around an opponent without losing the target direction. Any car or bike of the 40 available can be taken over and pedestrians can be mowed down, leaving behind money. There is also a cover system where it is possible to duck behind objects and fire quickly.
These are collected while playing or are bought in shops. The protagonist, dubbed The Player, can fight with his fists and other melee weapons, or shoot a large variety of guns. In addition there is a free roaming mode with the maximum amount of money right from the start. These can later be replayed as arcade challenges from the main menu. During certain parts 30 challenges can be triggered where an objective needs to be completed in a short time, such as driving around a tank or getting air time shooting a bazooka. Next to the main mission various side missions can be taken on or the city can be explored in full at the player's leisure. The game has a quirky style and hectic pace, and is filled to the brim references to popular culture, especially movies, celebrities and other games with many cameo appearances. The main story mode consists of a number of missions that involve heists, extortion, but for instance also helping out Doc Brown from the Back to the Future movies to help repair his time travel car. It draws many elements from the series it was inspired by, such as the ability to hijack any car, fight on foot with melee and ranged weapons, and shake off the law when too many crimes are committed. The game is set in eighties and the protagonist is a mullet-styled gangster who wreaks havoc in Theftropolis city. Originally started as a homebrew NES demake of Grand Theft Auto III, it was eventually developed into a full game. No matter which platform you own RCR on - Windows, Mac, PS3, PS Vita, Xbox 360, and even the original Wii - you'll be able to bring your game up to the 3DS version's elevated standards.Not an American user? Description Retro City Rampage is an open-world game inspired by the Grand Theft Auto series that combines driving with fighting and shooting in a retro 8-bit style. It is this definitive version that will be coming to all previous platforms as a free update later this month.Īs you can see, DX goes a long way in easing many of the frustrations of the original release by introducing different camera zoom levels, a better HUD, improved weapon and car management, new retro color schemes, the ability to plant waypoints on the map, and more. But even after all that hard work, Brian didn't stop, eventually unleashing an updated version called Retro City Rampage DX back in February for 3DS.
Players have since enjoyed the 8-bit Grand Theft Auto parody, filled as it is with copious amounts of '80s and '90s homages plus tons of self-referential humor. Brian Provinciano's Retro City Rampage was a monumental undertaking for the man, sucking up a full decade of his life before its release in 2012.
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